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. 2025 Oct;32(10):1122-1137.
doi: 10.1111/acem.70076. Epub 2025 Jul 4.

Pathway for a Diverse and Sustainable Emergency Medicine Clinician-Scientist Workforce: Recommendations From the 2024 SAEM Consensus Conference

Robert W Neumar  1 , Dowin Boatright  2 , Melissa McMillian  3 , Theodore Corbin  4 , Marquita S Norman  5 , Jody Vogel  6 , Clifton W Callaway  7 , Lynne Holden  8 , Ava E Pierce  5 , Linda Regan  9 , Lynne D Richardson  10 , Caitlin R Ryus  11 , Opeolu Adeoye  12 , Andra Blomkalns  13 , Charles J Gerardo  6 , Nathan Kuppermann  14   15 , Gail D'Onofrio  16 ; SAEM24 Consensus Conference Workgroup
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Pathway for a Diverse and Sustainable Emergency Medicine Clinician-Scientist Workforce: Recommendations From the 2024 SAEM Consensus Conference

Robert W Neumar et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2025 Oct.

Abstract

Objectives: The 2024 Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Consensus Conference focused on developing a pathway to build and support a diverse and sustainable emergency medicine (EM) clinician-scientist workforce. The underlying premise is that the specialty of EM needs a robust clinician-scientist workforce to fulfill its research mission of creating new knowledge to improve patient care and outcomes.

Methods: Preconference workgroups assessed existing pathways to develop and support EM clinician-scientists and generated unranked lists of strategies to holistically and comprehensively grow the clinician-scientist workforce. These strategies were refined and prioritized during a one-day, in-person conference, which was followed by a virtual conference to reach consensus on metrics, goals, and timelines for implementation.

Results: Overarching strategies included fostering a departmental culture that values research, addressing barriers to recruiting and retaining a diverse research work force, and enhancing the national reputation of EM research. At the undergraduate and medical school stage, creating a portfolio of medium- and long-term research training opportunities with EM faculty mentors was the highest priority. At the resident and fellow stage, top priorities were dedicated research training built into EM residencies and clinical fellowships. Early-career faculty strategies prioritized departmental support for federally funded K awards. Mid-career faculty strategies prioritized securing federal support for research mentoring, leading institutional training grants, and building research teams that include PhD scientists. At all stages, we addressed recruitment and retention of trainees and faculty from disadvantaged and underserved groups.

Conclusions: These prioritized strategies with respective metrics, goals, timelines, and responsible parties provide a roadmap for EM to build a broadly inclusive and sustainable clinician-scientist workforce, capable of creating the new knowledge needed to advance emergency medical care. Successful implementation will require substantial commitment and investment from national EM organizations and academic department chairs. The result will be improved care and outcomes for the patients and communities we serve.

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Conflict of interest statement

R.W.N.: Member, SAEM Foundation Board of Trustees; Chair, AACEM Research Workgroup; PI, Neuro EM Scholars Program K12NS137516. M.M.: Employee of Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. T.C.: Member, SAEM Foundation Board of Directors (2023–24). M.S.N.: Chair, SAEM Finance Committee; Member, SAEM Foundation Board of Trustees. J.V.: Secretary‐Treasurer and Member, SAEM Board of Directors; Member, SAEM Foundation Board of Directors. C.W.C.: PI Emergency Medicine Research Training T32HL134615; MPI, Neuro EM Scholars Program K12NS137516. A.E.P.: SAEM Board of Directors Member‐at‐Large, UT Southwestern Site Co‐Investigator National, Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and National Institutes of Health, Influence of Cooling duration on Efficacy in Cardiac Arrest Patients (ICECAP). L.R.: Chair, Review Committee for Emergency Medicine, ACGME. L.D.R.: Emergency Medicine Foundation, Board of Directors; PI, Mount Sinai Clinician Scientist Training Program in Emergency Care Research 1T32HL160513, PI, NIH FIRST Cohort Cluster Hiring Initiative at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai 1U54CA267776–01. C.R.R.: Fellowship Co‐Director, Yale Emergency Scholars Program; Scholar, Drug Addiction and HIV Prevention Research K12DA033312. O.A.: Founder, Sense Diagnostics Inc.; Multiple PI, Neuro EM Scholars Program K12NS137516. A.B.: Member, AACEM Executive Committee. N.K.: Research funded by NIH, HRSA, PCORI; Member AACEM Research workgroup. G.D.: Member of AACEM Research Workgroup, MPI Neuro‐EM K12. D.B., L.H., and C.G. authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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